Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 2 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 3 | A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill . |
| 4 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 5 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 6 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 7 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 8 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 9 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 10 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 11 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 12 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 13 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 14 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 15 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 16 | So the weaver rocks from side to side in the float as it is transported down the road , the cribber latches on to a fence post between mouthfuls of food , and the wind-sucker , out in a large paddock with other horses , may prefer to swallow air rather than eat the grass . |
| 17 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 18 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 19 | But not going when you need to causes water absorption and hardening , and the longer the child holds on to a movement , the harder it will be — making the problem worse . |
| 20 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 21 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , she still owes much to a male mentor who , in a previous job , told her : ‘ You can do it . |
| 23 | The development of fully-fledged headhunting firms owes much to a growing conflict of interest between different sectors of their business experienced by the management consultants and accountants who operated headhunting departments . |
| 24 | In the short term , the development of the British executive search industry owes much to a mixture of both demand and supply factors . |
| 25 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 26 | One suspects its high rating owes less to a fondness for social-democratic parties with close trade-union links than to a loose wish for economic efficiency plus social justice . |
| 27 | The modern stockman thus approximates more to a ‘ farm technician ’ than the old image of the ‘ farm labourer ’ . |
| 28 | C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use . |
| 29 | This all adds up to a bleak picture for corporate UK . |
| 30 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |